Lavinia Goodell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetLavinia Goodell
American lawyer
Date of Birth: 02-May-1839
Place of Birth: Utica, New York, United States
Date of Death: 31-Mar-1880
Profession: lawyer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Lavinia Goodell
- Rhoda Lavinia Goodell (May 2, 1839 – March 31, 1880) was the first woman licensed to practice law in Wisconsin. Goodell was born in Utica, New York, to prominent abolitionist William Goodell.
- She worked at her father's newspaper, The Principia, and at Harper's Magazine before moving to Janesville, Wisconsin in 1871.
- She studied law on her own and was admitted to the Rock County, Wisconsin bar in 1874.
- After her petition for admission to the bar of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin was denied in 1876, Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly John B.
- Cassoday sponsored a bill expressly authorizing women to be admitted to the state bar.
- The bill passed in 1877, and Goodell was admitted to practice before the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 1879.
- In 1880, Goodell argued and won her first case in the Wisconsin Supreme Court, shortly before she died of cancer in Janesville, Wisconsin.
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